On the long tide.

On the long tide.

High tide at noon.

The City and the cathedral: a reflection of the glory of the Gothic and the Middle Ages at their high tide in the city by the Seine.

And greater still was our comfort when we found fresh water in the creek where we were when the tide was out, without going so far up into the country.

Early one morning we came to an anchor under a little point of land, but pretty high; and the tide beginning to flow, we lay ready to go further inBut Xury, whose youthful and penetrating eyes were sharper then mine, in a soft tone, desired me to keep far from land, lest we should be devoured, "For look yonder, mayter," said he, "and see de dreadful monster fast asleep on de side of de hill."

"See how the tide is coming in," said Rap, when they returned to the beach.

CHAPTER XXIX UP THE RIVER The thunder-clouds thickened until the whole sky was black; the tide rose in great waves, and the children were glad to be in the house.

Rap, by rolling over and over on the sand, was in the water as soon as Nat; but they did not venture out far, even though the tide was low, contenting themselves by splashing about in shallow places.

The storm has driven some of them into the bay, where they do not usually come until later in the year; but in winter great flocks of Gulls live about our beach, clamming on the bar at every low tide.

"To-morrow, when the tide begins to come in, we are going to fish for bluefish!"

When the right day came, without a sign of ugly squalls or of an equally unfortunate calm, Olaf borrowed a largo cat-boat, and after stowing away the lunch hamper, that was always a 'must be' for an all-day trip, the boat almost flew out of the little bay and up the sound before the breeze that came with the morning tide.

They belong to a guild of water birds that I think we might call Sea Sweepers; for they clear from the surface of the water the refuse that the tide would otherwise throw upon the beaches.

And, once off their feet, she saw how the tide had swept them togetherswept them irrevocably beyond reason and recall.

"Dear, never before did I so completely know myself, never so absolutely trust myself to the imperious, almost ungovernable tide which has taken my destiny from the quiet harbour where it lay, and which is driving it headlong toward yours.

The regular cavalry of the Provost Guard had turned the tide of stragglers now, letting through only the wounded and the teams.

The beach gradually shelved at this point and they could wade out nearly a quarter of a mile at low tide.

The tide was about half in.

"It's shallow here and at low tide we may be able to get her.

When the tide went out late that afternoon they saw that it would be possible to get most of the things from the wrecked boat.

Promotion arrives from no point of the compass; nothing but a little tide of homely life ebbs and flows in these elm-girt villages above the fen.

It was nine and after, and the tide of life was roaring through the channels of the city when he roused himself, and to divert his suspense and fend off his growing stiffness went out to look about him.

1. "There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

And the brethen looked for it nowe at thys Bartlemewe tide last passed, and yet looke euery day, except it be come all redy, and secretly runne among them.

In this as in other branches of study it is the fate of theories to be washed away like children's castles of sand by the rising tide of knowledge, and I am not so presumptuous as to expect or desire for mine an exemption from the common lot.